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Hossein Taeb
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The ghost minister. Hossein Taeb built and ran IRGC intelligence for thirteen years, lost it to his own infiltration scandals in 2022, and today holds no office anyone can name. Yet per the New York Times and Iran International he phoned all 88 Assembly members to deliver Mojtaba Khamenei's succession vote, and Independent Persian names him the hidden hand of a purge that has arrested 6,500 people without charging one named senior insider. Everything attributed, nothing signed: in post-war Tehran that is not an absence of power, it is the shape of it. THE JULY DOSSIER: who's left, file 6/15.